Happy Shakespeare Day, one and all!
This year, I won’t be online much, as I’ve been invited to speak at the assisted living facility where my wife works. In other words, a room full of people whose average age is 95! I’ve already been once, and they liked it enough to ask for more. I’ll report back!
In the meanwhile I also wanted to say hi to all our new newsletter subscribers! I don’t know exactly what happened, but I’ve seen a surge of new readers over the past few weeks, and I’m happy you’re all here. There are 20 years of posts to explore, so I hope you find something of interest!
Making A Name For Myself
For a very long time, I’ve been Shakespeare Geek online. Google it, they’re all me. Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, etc, me me me. But after twenty years of doing that, I discovered a problem — Shakespeare isn’t my job. It’s my hobby. I’m actually a career software engineer. When I got laid off, it was a hurdle to take this huge social media audience I’d grown and realize that they couldn’t really help me. I needed to market myself differently.
Introducing my new Project Portfolio site. Here you’ll find everything I’ve worked on (complete or in progress), both Shakespeare and not. No matter how often you visit, chances are you’ve missed a few (or possibly forgotten them), We’ve got merchandise, a couple of books, a few games. And that’s just the Shakespeare stuff.
I’ve also got a few mobile and web apps. I’m very happy with my free Daily Gratitude app. I’m always trying to get more people to use that one.
This is also the site where you can find all my contact information in one place, both social (Threads preferred) and professional (LinkedIn).
What’s New?
Lately, I’ve been working on something a little different.
I realized there are a lot of dads out there—myself included—who are working hard at the day job, supporting a family, and then trying to build something of their own in the in-between time. Nights, weekends, early mornings. Hoping that maybe one day the “want to do” work can replace the “have to do” work.
And then it hit me: I’ve been doing that for over twenty years.
Being an empty nester doesn’t mean I’m done thinking about dad stress. If anything, it means I’ve got some perspective on how to survive it—and maybe do something meaningful along the way.
So I started putting those ideas together into a short ebook called Always Building. It’s about figuring out how to make progress when time is limited, interruptions are constant, and you don’t always know where to start.
There’s a free chapter available now while I work toward the full release.
If that sounds like you—or someone you know—I’d love for you to take a look. Early interest and feedback are what will help bring it the rest of the way.
Happy Shakespeare Day!
I don’t know how many posts I’ll make today. I queue them up as I find them, and often bang them out in real time during the day if inspiration finds me. In my younger days I’d do marathons, often posting two dozen stories, but I don’t think that’s going to happen this year. Like I said, I’ll be off learning from the near-centenarians! I made cookies!
(*) At least, I think I made cookies. That’s the plan. I tell you, this queuing up posts for the future is for the time-travelling birds.